Errors and Problems



The filter we designed works for the most part. However, there are a few problems. Because the Waldo images are each hand-drawn, it can be difficult to match the Waldo head template with the image in question. For example, in this image,

Our filter could not determine where Waldo is. The filter finds a region of white with a black line at the angle of Waldo's hat:

This type of mistake occurs when the template image does not highly correlate with the reference image. These errors could be corrected if a database of Waldo's were created and each one referenced instead of just having one Waldo template image.


Last modified: Fri Dec 17 16:40:08 CST 1999